Last week at the gym I saw a little old man bench pressing. He was about 5-foot-nothing and at least 70 with white hair and a pot belly. He didn't look especially fit or muscular, but he was barrel chested with short, relatively thick arms. Anyway, he went up to 225 lbs for 2 reps. Meanwhile, the guy on the next bench was about my age (late 20s) and around 6 feet tall. He was struggling to manage a few reps at 185 lbs (spotter had help a little near the end) and looking a little embarassed.

Theres different kinds of strength matt that I have noticed throughout life. One there is something called retard strength no offense to anyone and i have retarded people in my family but they are strong as hell also another is old man strength old men who have lived long have gotten there because they are tough and been through a lot of stuff. Both are usually surprisingly strong ask that 20 yr old who was embarrassed lol.

One thing that's stuck with me for years now, is this guy that used to be in my gym. Literally when I first joined. He looked about just like anyones grandparent that you would come across. Well, he may have had a musclular body or whatever, but he didn't exactly sport tank tops. If you seen him out in the street or in a bar or something, you would have no idea he was fit/strong/whatever.

Anyway, I remember training beside him, then noticed he was doing curls with 45lbs DB's, with so much ease that it made my eyes pop out my head (didn't look like he was trying). He was some guy, he was into OL and PL, but mostly OL. He actually taught me how to Clean. He didn't like most of the people in the gym. He liked me because i wasn't a 'poser' and trained hard, but I done far too much 'bodybuilder stuff'. LOL. Man, how right he was.

Incidentally, A competing BB told me the same thing about a year after that and I still never listened!

Still, that old guy was amazing. That's how I see myself. I think that's my ultimate goal - to be like that guy when i'm his age.

The funniest thing is, you 'qualify' for it if you have a BMI of over 28. Who's betting that those with a BMI of ~25 will 'binge' so they can get up to 28 and get the magic pillls?

You know what else - I'm 5'7, 175lbs. That makes my BMI 27.4. I would say my body fat is about 12%. I have abs, but I doubt i'm in the single digits as you can only see the bottom 2 in a certain light. ANYWAY...

I'm going to put on another few lbs, then go into every chemist I come across and get weighed for the diet pill, just to screw with them a little. Maybe not every chemist, but i'll do it in my local one atleast.

When I was watching the news this morning, they were talking about a new FSA report which showed the drastic amounts of sugar in the most common breakfast cereals over here, specifically, the one's targetted at kids. Some allegedly have the same sugar content as a bowl of Ice Cream. There was a big crackdown on this 3 years ago, it's made the news again because there's no improvement.

This woman came on for an interview, who was from some "Board of Sugary Cereals that Brain Wash Kids and Parents", or something. The interview was terrible. Well, revealed a terrible mindset.

The Womam presenter is actually very good - quite provocative, doesn't hold back. But you should of heard the crap this women who got interviewed came out with. I'll rattle off a few, the quotes are accurate, but not exact, as it's from memory,

"It's interesting that the media only focuses on the Sugar and not the wealth of other valuable nutrients that are in the cereals"

"Sugar is a vital nutrient and children especially need a lot of it".

When asked about why all the breakdowns on labels referred to 35g servings, when the average serving was clearly much more than that, she said,

"It's the sugar intake throughout the period of around a year that really matters. You're also not taking into account the other sugar from other sources that are being consumed."

What a load of crap. There was more, but these are the points that stick in my mind. I want to rant about this, but I don't even know where to start. Best left alone. It's just interesting to see the mindset of these people.

I'm in Internet Marketing, which is very close to marketing in general. What these people do with 'the research' reminds of a consultant that we used to work with. He had huge accounts and was very succesful, so we hired him for 2 days per month for 6 months. He was a Microsoft Excel genius. He used to always say, "as long as the numbers work, everything else will work. You can always make the numbers work". What he meant by that, was, even if campaigns were going badly, he could use real numbers and statistics, and present them in such a way that the campaign looked good. Sounds very far fetched, but, trust me, it's very true, and very common, especially from big marketing companies.

It was also used when a customer would say, "we want to make X turnover and Y profit". He would start with the final number and trace it way back to the start of the campaign. "you just need to get the numbers to work

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